"With all the subtlety of someone banging a big bass
drum with a large wooden mallet, Pope Francis continues to rail against
imaginary “Pharisees” in the Church who are supposedly denying “mercy” to
imaginary sinners who seek forgiveness but find only harsh judgment. Who these
cruel Pharisees and maltreated sinners are remains a mystery, given that in the
Church today there is near universal laxity and even pro-abortion 'Catholic'
politicians receive Holy Communion from the hands of priests with the
cooperation of bishops who lack the courage to defend the integrity of the
Blessed Sacrament."
Bang The Drum ... Loudly:
"What on earth is Francis talking about? Who are these rigid judges? Who is punishing
penitents? Who has denied the truly penitent the mercy God Himself extends
through the Sacrament of Confession, a mercy that is every sinner’s for the
asking if only he seeks it with a sincere heart and a firm purpose of
amendment?"
"The “new Pharisees and Scribes” in the Church today are, as Bishop Athanasius Schneider has observed, Cardinal Kasper and his collaborators, who would return the Church to the time of the original Pharisees by introducing into the New Covenant an acceptance of divorce that Our Lord condemned in the Old Covenant and declared to be abolished forever."
"That rather diabolical bitter irony has permeated this pontificate almost from its very beginning."